The Art Room at Crystal Park School Sept 2010-June 2014

Highlights of the art work created at Crystal Park School in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Most of the work posted is that of Junior High Students (Grades 7-9) - but some will be from elementary classes as well!

Art 9 - Lino PRint Cards

Art 8 - Self Portraits

Art 9 - Watercolour Collage

Art 7 - Clay Face Vases :)

Art 9 Studio - Art History Skateboard Paintings

Art 7 - Pop Art Prints

Art 9 Studio - The Waste Land Project

Inspired by artist Vic Muniz's documentary film "Waste Land" - students re-created their own photographs with found objects. Prints of their projects were sold in an art room fundraiser. The students raised $200 and donated it a local charity. Click on the images to see them in their entirety!Read more about Vic Muniz: http://vikmuniz.net/ - https://artsy.net/artist/vik-munizSee a preview of "Waste Land": http://www.wastelandmovie.com/

Art 7 - Australian Dot Art Inspired Paintings

Art 7 - Creative Colour Wheels

Art 8 - Chinese Brush Painting

Art 8 - Positive Vs. Negative Space Images

Art 8 - Public Art Sculptures

Students created "maquette" sculptures of their public art sculpture plans with plasticene, paper, wire, popsicle sticks and other materials found around the art room. They used photoshop to place images of their sculptures into found images of Grande Prairie. The students came up with a number of thought provoking, witty, charming and humorous solutions!

Art 8 - Public Art - Planning/Brainstorming & Sketches

After students were introduced to the concept of "public art" we brainstormed as a group ideas about the place where we live as a starting point for the creation of a public art work for Grande Prairie - connecting meaning to place. Students then had to draft six different ideas for their final sculpture from the ideas generated. Out of the six sketches students chose one to create in 3-D. (See above.)

Art 9 - The Broken Image - Cubist Inspired Oil PAstel Drawings

Art 7 - Barbara Reid Inspired Plasticine Scenes

Students explored the creation of images with a foreground, mid-ground and background using plasticine techniques from Barbara Reid's online videos at www.barbarareid.ca.

Art 9 - Graffiti Art Portfolios

Art 7 - i pt. Perspective Name Designs

Art 7 & 8 - PAintinG to create animal textures

Art 9 - Skpye Interview with Video Game Artist

The Art 9 students had a chance to research and present facts about jobs in the art industry - everything from graphic designers to jewellery and skateboard designers! To end our unit on "Cool Jobs in Art" we had the opportunity to chat via skype with video game art producer Adrien Cho (who has worked on popular games such as Mass Effect and Halo 4). Though technology did not work in our favour that day, we had a fun sending messages back and forth with Adrien. Students walked away inspired to keep doing the type of art they love and with hard work and dedication the career will follow! Thank you Adrien!

Art 9 - Themed Cup & Saucer Designs

Art 8 - SILHOUETTE Paintings

Art 9 - Wire Sculptures

Art 7 & 8 - The Disguised Project

Students made plaster casts of their own hands (with a partner) and painted the cast to be "disguised" as an animal or in one case ... a pokemon! :)

Art 8 - Expressive Hands

Art 7 - Australian Dot Art Inspired Paintings

Art 8 - Haida Inspired Prints

Art 9 - Decorative Clay Planters

Art 7 - Copper Designs

Art 7 - 3-D Character Expressions

Art 7-8-9 - Colour Theory with Cookies & Icing :)

Art 9 - Trees

Art Studio 9 - Creative Colour Wheels 2011

Art 9 - Contour Collages

Art 7 & 8 - Room Designs

Art 7 - Colour & Shape Paintings

Art 8/9 - Pastel Flowers 2011

These flowers were drawn first in pencil on black construction paper. The pencil lines were traced with white glue. When the white glue dried the work was finished with chalk pastel. The dry white glue lines do not pick up any of the chalk colour, allowing the colour of the black construction paper to show. What a neat effect!

Art 9 - Message in a Bottle

Art 9 - Slab Pot Designs

Unique slab pot designs painted to tell a frame-by-frame story with the human figure.

Art 8/9 - Pinch Pot Designs

Art Studio 9 - Skateboards - Artist Studies

Pairs of students worked together on each board. One very special board is missing from this group. It was sold at this year's Fine Spring Evening and got away before I had a chance to photograph it! If the purchaser of this board would like to email me a picture of it I would love to post that photo here. Thanks! :)

Art 8/9 - Abstract Cardboard Relief Sculpture

Based on the work of American artist, Frank Stella, the students were challenged to express movement and physical activity in an abstract way. Can you guess what these sculptures are about? :)

Art 8/9 Haida Inspired Prints

Art 7 - Australian Aboriginal Inspired Dot Art

Art 8/9 - Expressive Hands

Art 9 - Take a Walk - Contour Line Drawing 2010

Art 9 - Nature vs. Machine Lino Block Prints

Art 7 - Clay Expression Masks (prior to painting)

Art 7 - Morphing Scratch Foam Prints (pre-Editioning)

Art 8 - Your City Project 2010

Art Studio 9 - Global Citizen Creature Printmaking Project 2011

Stage 1 - Lino Cut Test Prints :)

Inspiring us to face local and global challenges. More specifics about the special abilities of these creatures to come!